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Spy laws to become broader, perhaps also including trade secrets. Photo: sxc.hu

Broadening of spy laws proposed

Sweden | 2010-04-01
The Government has appointed a commission that will investigate how to make it easier to convict those suspected of spying. Today, a conviction requires that the spying involves getting information that harms national security.


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This is because we can see that there are grey areas, not directly military, but which is oriented towards our industry and others. But also in these grey areas there are info that, if revealed, it in some sense would be a threat to Sweden," Minister for Justice, Beatrice Ask, said to public radio SR.

Yesterday, newspaper Expressen revealed that a Russian renegade spy chief had pointed out an official at the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a leak. But the preliminary investigation against this official had to be closed down since it was impossible to show that the spreading of the information was not clearly a threat to the national security.


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